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Re: A problem with Navigator's cache -Reply
Jeff Weinstein wrote:
| Adam Shostack wrote:
| > So the executable gets its own path name, and then locks for
| > $Netscapedir/netscape.lck?
| >
| > cp /usr/local/bin/netscape /tmp
| > /tmp/netscape
| >
| > sigh. If the program runs under the user's control, then the path to
| > the netscape.lck must be hardcoded and fully qualified, such as
| > /usr/local/lib/netscape/netscape.lck
|
| In a properly configured environment this will not work. Your
| firewall, proxy and corporate servers can be configured to only
| accept connections from a navigator with the correct lock file.
I'm glad to hear it, but, is this documented? Can I do this
without buying Netscape's proxy?
Adam
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